U+16915 "𖤕" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ndee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖤕
U+16915 "𖤕" Bamum Letter Phase-D Ndee is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an indigenous writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the Bamum Kingdom of present-day Cameroon. This character belongs to Phase D of the script’s evolution, representing a stage where the writing system was simplified by King Njoya and his scribes to better suit the sounds of the Bamum language. The letter "Ndee" corresponds to a particular consonant sound within the language’s syllabary. As part of the Unicode Standard, it ensures digital preservation and accessibility for linguistic research, historical documentation, and modern communication among speakers of the Bamum language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16915 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-D Ndee |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖤕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖤕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA4 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDD15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016915 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udd15 |